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Central State Hospital collection

Collection

Identifier: KORN243

Scope and Contents This small body of reports and bulletins was gathered from multiple sources into an artificial collection. The most valuable item is a set of annual reports from 1873 to 1877. All of the rest date from 1960s, with the latest from 1967.

Dates: 1883-1967

Found in: Kornhauser Health Sciences Library

Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum papers

Collection

Identifier: KORN193

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies of records of the present day Eastern State Hospital. The records date from 1828 through 1872 and are arranged chronologically. They include letters to and from family members of patients, bonds, and commitment records. Also included are photocopied articles, gathered by Joan Titley Adams, former medical library director, for her articles on the instituion.

Dates: 1828-1872

Found in: Kornhauser Health Sciences Library

Henry R. Heyburn papers

Collection

Identifier: 1977_020-UA

Scope and Contents These records include correspondence, financial reports, articles and bylaws, and other pertinent information describing the operating of the Community (Red Cross) Hospital. It portrays many of the problems inherent in such an operation, from large financial ones down to the individual level in the case of problems with individuals, both employees and patients. This section consists of three boxes.

Dates: circa 1945-1974

Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Jewish Hospital Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1981_062-UA

Scope and Contents The collection contains a scrapbook, "The Story of the New Jewish Hospital," 1948-1953, compiled by the Jewish Hospital Association president Saul B. Ades. There is also one linear foot of clippings, photographs, and other records compiled by the hospital's public relations department during the commemoration of Jewish's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1980.

Dates: circa 1948-1980

Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Louisville General Hospital records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1980_094-UA

Content Description Louisville General Hospital annual reports (1933-1944); Board of Governors meeting meetings (1972, 1975); Planning and organization survey (Mar. 1964) and policy manual (1962).

Dates: 1933-1975

Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Red Cross Hospital scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: 1976_467-UA

Content Description The scrapbooks contain clippings and some correspondence related to the hospital and its business manager/administrator, Houston A. Baker. Fund drives in 1945 and 1948, as well as dedicatory exercises for a new addition to the hospital in 1951, are documented. Microfilmed by the University of Louisville, 1976.

Dates: 1945-1952

Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Kentucky medical historical research project

Collection

Identifier: KORN127

Scope and Contents This collection contains administrative records from the project; bioqraphies of health professionals; information on schools of medicine, dentistry, nursinq, pharmacy, and public health in Kentucky; professional orqanizations and other societies; hospitals and related institutions; public health orqanizations; and miscellaneous health topics.

Dates: 1792-1937

Found in: Kornhauser Health Sciences Library

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Central State Hospital collection

Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum papers

Henry R. Heyburn papers

Jewish Hospital Records

Louisville General Hospital records

Red Cross Hospital scrapbooks

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Kentucky medical historical research project

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